communicate

Communicate

Assessing student literacy with ICT involves conversations about learning destinations, criteria, descriptive feedback, and goal setting. These conversations may be self-reflective (assessment AS learning), shared between peers, shared between teacher and student, or they may be three-way student-led conferences involving parents. This last type of conversation is an integral part of reporting to parents about their child’s literacy with ICT (assessment OF learning).

As they learn, students use portfolios to accumulate evidence of their literacy with ICT. These portfolios may be process or product portfolios, or a combination of the two. They may be paper-based or electronic. First, students and teachers decide on the type of portfolio they will create to demonstrate evidence of their learning; second, they engage in an ongoing process of collection, selection, reflection, evaluation, and celebration. Artifacts selected for a portfolio my contain text, audio, video, data, and graphics, and each artifact is accompanied by a self-reflection (assessment AS learning) about what it illustrates about the student’s learning.
Evaluation and reporting are directly connected to assessment of literacy with ICT. While assessing means systematically gathering evidence of student learning over time, and evaluating means interpreting the assessment information using professional judgement, reporting means synthesizing and communicating student progress and achievement to all concerned.
Assessment of literacy with ICT occurs in curricular context through observations, conversations and portfolios. Evaluation of literacy with ICT is based on targets in the continuum snapshots, the development of the individual student profile, and access to ICT infrastructure. Reporting on literacy with ICT consists of informing parents about their child’s competency in three areas:
· Demonstrating critical thinking with ICT to plan and gather information
· Demonstrating creative thinking with ICT to produce and communicate information
· Demonstrating responsibility and ethics with ICT